Browse news and features about the Fairport Cropredy Convention. Cropredy is a pretty village five miles north of Banbury in Oxfordshire. Every August, its inhabitants welcome an invasion of up to 20,000 music-lovers for Fairport’s Cropredy Convention. The event is held over the second full weekend of August, from Thursday afternoon to midnight on Saturday.
From music icons in open-air theatres to happy hippie vibes in suburban fields, there are plenty of world-class music festivals scheduled to take place across Oxfordshire in 2023.
It joins a long line of festival cancellations blaming lockdown extension, inability to obtain cancellation insurance or a general lack of direction and support from the Government.